I mean I can tell my lawyer if I committed a crime and it’s attorney client privilege. I can tell my wife or husband and we are protected not to squeal on each other. Same thing about telling a priest it is privileged information. How come a nurse or doctor is required to report it. I mean non of the above are life and death but a confession from a patient should be privileged in my opinion why is it not? Like if a person says they use meth or whatever, we really don’t report it. But if he get’s in a wreck and only causes himself or herself injury why are we to report it to the police does not HIPPA cover this?
That last paragraph, especially, explains it so well. It’s very important to know to whom, when, where, why, how, and to what extent one should talk about a particular subject.
That seems like a lot of work. I’ll just continue not telling anybody anything.
That’s probably better than the opposite extreme, although I think most of us learn to filter intuitively for appropriateness over time. Having said that, I feel like telling medics your symptoms and your attorney anything they ask generally covers most of the bases.